Exploring an underwater garden in Brazil
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- čas přidán 18. 11. 2023
- Here I present footage from last year, when I explored a small tributary river, thick with beautiful aquatic plants, draining into the mighty Paraguay River.
I was there along with my friends Heriberto and Ricardo, representatives of the state environmental agency of Mato Grosso do Sul (IMASUL) and we had set out on an official expedition to collect plants for the Bioparque Pantanal, a public aquarium being built at the time.
Part of my informal role was to identify suitable species and specimens, but I also found the time to film in perhaps the most beautiful underwater habitat I have ever seen.
I apologise for the picture quality, as I only had my little Olympus TG5 camera and then used my Nikon D500, inside a very basic rubber housing (which failed, causing the camera to sadly die). One day I might have the $10,000 or so I need to get a proper housing, dome lens, lighting and DSLR camera for quality underwater footage, but at present, I have to work with what I can afford. I hope you all enjoy the video regardless!
Music: ES_Dancing Pink Orbs - 369
This is epic footage!
I am amazed at how long some of those plants grow! 😮 Beautiful! Nature make the most amazing scapes! ❤
So surreal, almost alien like, mesmerizing. Thank you, luv it
Pemandangan taman bawah air yg sangat indah dan luar biasa. Belum pernah saya lihat yang seperti ini, begitu menenangkan seakan ikut terlarut dalam suasana saat anda meenyelam.
Hermoso!
If I was a Tetra, I would be in these waters. The next Avatar movie should include these waters.
I don't know how you kept going and filming. I would have stayed still for a long while before moving around. That was mesmerizing
Battery life, day-light and the amount of good humour of the boat pilot are always factors in how long I can stay heheh
magic
Thanks so much for showing. I love these kind of video. Keep it coming.
I highly recommend playing this fantastic video at half speed.
It's true. Feeling more cinematic.
It's really beautiful. You are lucky to be there.
Thanks Matthijs. You seem to be one of very few to actually document these freshwater underwater worlds. Keep going, make people aware. They will probably disappear in the next couple of decades, mankind is so incredibly merciless when it comes to nature. These aquatic habitats are so delicate.
🤍 I believe so aswell
Thank you for your kind words and support! Yes, I am hoping that maybe highlighting these places exist might possibly help slow their destruction, it is all that I can do I suppose...but it's something!
E pensar que o governo do Bolsonaro acabou quase tudo isso aí extraindo madeira ilegal pros EUA
Beautiful and unexpectedly super colourful!
Definitivamente la naturaleza es única, un paraíso sumergido bajo el agua
Tolle Unterwasseraufnahmen! 👍
echt wunderschön so viele pflanzen und so klare wasser, sieht aus wie im aquarium. aber für die vielen versteckmöglichkeiten durch die pflanzen, finde ich waren dort wenig fische... 😉👍👍👍
Super Aufnahmen!
Very interesting
Beautiful Mate! I can just imagine how it must of felt floating in there, you wouldn't want to leave, some really beautiful plants and fish and so clear, Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks for video, that is beautyful
Awesome video, really appreciate you shared it.
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Great video and music!
It was so cool bro
Best video I have ever seen in my whole life
Heavenly 😍
Incredible beauty. By far this is the best video. Thank you.
Wow, Tai. Cool. Thanks. I love the SA habitat.
just beautiful
Stunningly beautiful.
I've removed not so large Echinodorus from my own aquariums. Their roots are so adventitious and everything else near them would get uprooted with them. I guess I can just leave most of the roots if I remove them next time having seen how you collected those much larger ones.
🍁🌻👍For the Algo
incredible video thank you for sharing!!!!!!!
The waters are so clear, i expected them to be full of silt, really awesome!
Estou amando os vídeos irmão!
Sensacional!
Registro muito rico de flora!
Lugar incrível de ir mais vezes!
Abraços, de Luiz Felipe do Brasil!
What a wonderfully well put together video! A big thank you from Madrid.
🙏gracias!
Living the dream. That was a long dive.
I recall that eerie sensation you get when exploring new underwater worlds,
from my freediving days, and you're abruptly pulled out of your euphoric trance-like state.
The mind can wander endlessly while diving.
Freediving is something I would love to do (but I'm asthmatic) and I can totally see how you might enter such a state, so connected with being in the moment and in a form of extreme isolation I guess...
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Amazing! Thank-you! Your videos are the highlight of my day!!! I truly appreciate them more than I can say! I have to watch them 2 or 3 times, because I miss too much when I read the captions. So worth it!!! I'm sorry you have lost equipment from water leaks! That is horrible! I hope these videos more than compensate for equipment replacement. Thank-you, again! ❤❤❤
Hi Andi, thank you so much, it means a lot to read your words and its very encouraging! I will try to produce some more videos that you may like and yes, I hope in time I can invest in better camera gear!
Красиво, вот бы самому нырнуть и посмотреть, спасибо за ваши видео
Absolutely stunning. Thanks for that. Absolutely special and needed. When all this is gone, there maybe are these Videos somewhere that show how it was. To remember and teach what once was. Just imagine how these Systems must have been looking and thriving 200 Years ago.
I am completely jealous :D But since you can share an Idea of being there, it is fine. Thank you for your work and enjoyment.
Thank you for your kind support! Yes I often imagine how these places were centuries ago...and also if my recordings might be evidence of them existing at all...if I had a time machine I would go back 5000 years to explore the world. I will try to keep posting more habitat videos to share!
Wow!! The creeping Ludwigia is so beautiful. Thank you for the video, it was soothing to see. Sorry about your camara though.
Nothing as Hi-Tech but still vivid and fascinating growth of submerged plants
Wow, this is pure aqua-porn - I´m speechless. Love this underwater garden with it´s huuuuge plants. Wonderfull musical choice as well.
I had to watch the video at half speed just to catch up with the subtitles! 😅
Sorry about that, I need to work on the subtitle-timing...I appreciate they go too fast so will try to improve that in future :)
A lot of beautiful depths and, above all, plants, but I noticed that there are not many fish this time?
In the permanently flooded areas the fish can disperse over lots of habitat, but also we noticed an oxygen crash in the area, which may have forced fish out of connecting river channels :)
@@biotopia5319 Thank you for the interesting answer, although there was no ghost in the environment, best regards, keep in touch
Why are the subtitles so quick,I barely have time to read them,please leave them on screen longer. Apart from that this is an awesome video
All I can say is wow, wow and more wow. I am so grateful you are sharing snorkeling in these sacred waters. I was not expecting the end note about how the land itself is under attack. I image for only greedy short term monetary gains. I will enjoy what mother nature expresses non the less through your camera lenses and hard work. It's not only very informative it is completely mesmerizing. By the way I am a professional music arranger / producer and I am very much liking the music. Can you share what song we are listening too? thx.
Hey thank you so much for your encouraging words! Yes it is had to see the environmental destruction continue even after we hoped that political change might alter the situation more...the music is called 'Dancing Pink Orbs' by 369, I just get all my tracks from the Epidemic Sound website/app, I pay for it so I avoid any copyright issues 😅
That water hyacinth wtf
Those Red Plants look amazing. It seems that there are several different varieties of plants. Could it be duplicated in an aquarium? What are they called? Thank you for sharing a World I might never see. Godspeed!
Hey Jose, the red plants are Ludwigia inclinata, they are quite difficult to maintain in the aquarium (I have failed twice) and I'm trying them again now, so we will see how they do! They need very strong lighting, lots of Co2, nutrients and soft, acidic water. Thank you for your positive encouragement!
Great video with some beautiful views. Maybe add some voice over though. The text you added goes very fast, and contains a lot of spelling errors. All in all amazingly beautiful though.
It's really difficult with the voice/subtitle balance. The voice is too slow and people keep complaining about the audio, the subtitles are too fast...and Final Cut Pro (the editing software) now does this stupid thing where it auto-corrects words, but in actual fact, it cuts them, changes them, or produces total rubbish...I've not figured out how to change that setting yet...will work on it!
arent those flunders super poisonous?
So where can I do this exactly in Brazil 👀
in the Serra de Amolar region, by getting a boat pilot to take you about 6 hours north of Corumbá, and then hunt for suitable small side rivers...asking the boat guys where they can find red plants.
thx man.. only your subtitles are too fast
Noted! Will work on it
Is there crocodiles or alligators in these waters? I love it but I'm so scared thingking about them.
There are Yellow Caiman here, but in many years of being in the water with them I have never had a problem, the males can get about 3m and be scary but they are more nervous of you really. In the Amazon there are Black Caiman and they are really dangerous.
It's good to hear real experience from a local. You must have a good understanding before stepping into the water there. Very scary aye? Me myself in Australia never think about going near the water in Queensland and Northern Territory where crocs lurking under water @@biotopia5319
No caimans in this area?
Yes but they stay in the swampy shallow areas and in these more remote places they move off when they hear the boat coming
The captions went so fast I couldn't follow it.
Subtitles too fast to read and way too big to ignore, really detracts from the viewing experience. Unfortunate.